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I want to acknowledge and give credit to the Black leaders, Black midwives, Black doulas, and Black activists who organized around this issue and who devoted an exhausting amount of time in the numerous threads against persistent, white-centering backlash. Special thanks to Samsarah Morgan for reviewing this article for sensitivity. Over the weekend, renowned midwife[Read More…]

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I thought I would write up something nice for Mother’s Day. Turns out when your entire family has been down with the stomach bug for more than a week – up and down, passing it one to the other – you’re too exhausted to do or think any kind of linear thought, let alone have[Read More…]

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Welp. He did it again. Trump opened his big, fat mouth, and whoops, something hugely sexist just fell right out. Right out there on national television. Again. If this were Boobergate, he’d be blurred out. But alas, this isn’t the offense of a she-nipple, it’s a male mouth hole and we definitely don’t censor[Read More…]

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Earlier this week the CDC came out with recommendations that basically suggest that all women from the onset of their fist period until menopause refrain from drinking alcohol unless they are on birth control in order to reduce the risk of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Because, well, although birth control sometimes fails, it would be ludicrous[Read More…]

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I’ve been disillusioned by Intactivists for a while now. Not because I disagree with genital integrity. I don’t. Obviously. I resonate heartily with motivations to abolish genital mutilation for all genders. The right to genital integrity is a natural component of the right to bodily autonomy. But I hold deep contempt for tactics that mimic[Read More…]

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Earlier this week, a Christmas card photo, depicting a family posing amid a Christmas tree farm began wildly circulating on Facebook. It wasn’t its cutesy creativity that caught everyone’s attention; it was the surprising and disturbing display of rape culture and domestic violence captured in a single, “Happy and Silly Family” Christmas card shot. The[Read More…]

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I feel vindicated by the way his sexist, racist, and self-centered tantrum so succinctly sums up the way that oppressive structures results in these sorts of narcissistic world views. His display embodies WAY, way more than this isolated case or this single police officer.

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So a week ago, I met Gloria Steinem at a lecture she gave in my city. And, no, despite that I’m writing a piece about her visit for the local publication I write for, I didn’t get to attend the intimate reception held for her prior to the talk (even though I groveled then complained[Read More…]

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I want to acknowledge and give credit to the Black leaders, Black midwives, Black doulas, and Black activists who organized around this issue and who devoted an exhausting amount of time in the numerous threads against persistent, white-centering backlash. Special thanks to Samsarah Morgan for reviewing this article for sensitivity. Over the weekend, renowned midwife[Read More…]

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I thought I would write up something nice for Mother’s Day. Turns out when your entire family has been down with the stomach bug for more than a week – up and down, passing it one to the other – you’re too exhausted to do or think any kind of linear thought, let alone have[Read More…]

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Welp. He did it again. Trump opened his big, fat mouth, and whoops, something hugely sexist just fell right out. Right out there on national television. Again. If this were Boobergate, he’d be blurred out. But alas, this isn’t the offense of a she-nipple, it’s a male mouth hole and we definitely don’t censor[Read More…]

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Earlier this week the CDC came out with recommendations that basically suggest that all women from the onset of their fist period until menopause refrain from drinking alcohol unless they are on birth control in order to reduce the risk of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Because, well, although birth control sometimes fails, it would be ludicrous[Read More…]

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I’ve been disillusioned by Intactivists for a while now. Not because I disagree with genital integrity. I don’t. Obviously. I resonate heartily with motivations to abolish genital mutilation for all genders. The right to genital integrity is a natural component of the right to bodily autonomy. But I hold deep contempt for tactics that mimic[Read More…]

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Earlier this week, a Christmas card photo, depicting a family posing amid a Christmas tree farm began wildly circulating on Facebook. It wasn’t its cutesy creativity that caught everyone’s attention; it was the surprising and disturbing display of rape culture and domestic violence captured in a single, “Happy and Silly Family” Christmas card shot. The[Read More…]

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I feel vindicated by the way his sexist, racist, and self-centered tantrum so succinctly sums up the way that oppressive structures results in these sorts of narcissistic world views. His display embodies WAY, way more than this isolated case or this single police officer.

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So a week ago, I met Gloria Steinem at a lecture she gave in my city. And, no, despite that I’m writing a piece about her visit for the local publication I write for, I didn’t get to attend the intimate reception held for her prior to the talk (even though I groveled then complained[Read More…]

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Last week, (yet another) article came out detailing the case of a woman who is suing her doctor for pressuring her into a cesarean against her will. There is so much to deconstruct within the narrative of that story, but I want to focus on the commentary from the Obstetrician in the case. I have[Read More…]

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I want to take a moment to publicly applaud MANA (Midwives Alliance of North America) – under the leadership of Marinah Farrell – for making their core competencies inclusive of non-binary gender identities. I also want to acknowledge the friends and colleagues of mine who have a very personal stake in this dialogue of inclusiveness;[Read More…]